Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene