It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

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.