Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.