He prayeth best who loveth best.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.