No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

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

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.