This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.