[A] mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

What was bright and exciting becomes weary, flat, and unprofitable.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.