Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?