Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.