It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.
Talent should minister to genius.
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.