That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.