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

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

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

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.