The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.