Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

Power is not happiness.