...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

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

Lights of the world, and stars of human race.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!