Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.