And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.