What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.