Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.