The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this d...ouble nature of the visible and invisible world--to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,... And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humili...ty and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commo...nly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who will join in the march to the Rocky Mountains with me, a sort of high-pressure-double-cylinder-go-it-ahead-forty-wildcats- tea...rin' sort of a feller?... Git out of this warming-pan, ye holly-hocks, and go out to the West where you may be seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »