Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.