The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?