"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."

"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."

"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."

"No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something."

"'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do."

"A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with."

"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be."

"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."

"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."

"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."

"The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength."

"Every one soon or late comes round by Rome."

"All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves."

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."

"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"

"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"