Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

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.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.