“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not likethe azure ether beyond.”

“I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths, and skies and seas around. —”

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.”

“By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.”

“This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.”

“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”