Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Song is the heroics of speech.