Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.