All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.