The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave..

Life is as serious a thing as death..

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn..

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river re….

Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven..

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness..

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss..

What men call accident is God's own part..

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men..

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view..

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God..

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are….

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to ….

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think an….

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light..

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel..

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell..

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud..

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep..

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give..