Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.