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

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man