Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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.

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

He prayeth best who loveth best.