- "but that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. it is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all."
- "...like a czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans."
- "...a little weathered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death."
- "but faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
- "methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air."
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