For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

:death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Time, which is the author of authors.

It is true that that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and…

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceiv…

'Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the …