A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.