Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.