The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Votes: 30
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. Votes: 22
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. Votes: 8
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. Votes: 0
A great mind must be androgynous. Votes: 0
Silence does not always mark wisdom. Votes: 0
A stately pleasure-dome decree. Votes: 0
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation Votes: 0
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. Votes: 0
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant. Votes: 0
Her skin was white as leprosy. Votes: 0
Ancestral voices prophesying war. Votes: 0
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. Votes: 0
Rage is essentially vulgar. Votes: 0
Remorse weeps tears of blood. Votes: 0
A rogue is a roundabout fool. Votes: 0
Friendship is a sheltering tree. Votes: 0
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. Votes: 0
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Votes: 0
A sight to dream of, not to tell! Votes: 0
All nature seems at work. Votes: 0
And in today already walks tomorrow. Votes: 0
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you. Votes: 0
Bells, the poor man's only music. Votes: 0
Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! Votes: 0
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. Votes: 0
Conscience is the pulse of reason Votes: 0
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor. Votes: 0
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. Votes: 0
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. Votes: 0
He prayeth best who loveth best. Votes: 0
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book. Votes: 0
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Votes: 0
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other. Votes: 0
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. Votes: 0
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. Votes: 0
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth! Votes: 0
Memory, bosom-spring of joy. Votes: 0
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. Votes: 0
Never pursue literature as a trade. Votes: 0
Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. Votes: 0
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. Votes: 0
The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space. Votes: 0
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she. Votes: 0