The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.
I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.