Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.