I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.