There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

What I value most next to eternity is time.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

There is a transcendent power in example.