The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Time and space are but the physiological colors which the eye maketh, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night.

If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!