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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
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Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
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Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
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One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
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Man is a substance clad in shadows.
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Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
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Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.