To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.