It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.