Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

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

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.