Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

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

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.