Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!