O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!