All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?