I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.