A Sight To Dream Of, Not To

And Here Were Forests Ancient As The Hills, Enfolding Sunny Spots Of Greenery.

Nothing Is As Contagious As Enthusiasm. It Is The Real Allegory Of The Myth Of Orpheus; It Moves Stones, And Charms Brutes. It Is The Genius Of Sincerity, And Truth Accomplishes No Victories Without It.

In Koln, A Town Of Monks And Bones, And Pavement Fang'd With Murderous Stones, And Rags And Hags, And Hideous Wenches, I Counted Two-and-seventy Stenches, All Well Defined, And Several Stinks! Ye Nymphs That Reign O'er Sewers And Sinks, The River Rhine, It Is Well Known, Doth Wash Your City Of Cologne; But Tell Me, Nymphs! What Power Divine Shall Henceforth Whash The River Rhine.

Whenever Philosophy Has Taken Into Its Plan Religion, It Has Ended In Skepticism; And Whenever Religion Excludes Philosophy, Or The Spirit Of Free Inquiry, It Leads To Willful Blindness And Superstition.

You Do Not Believe, You Only Believe That You Believe.