His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.