“And rays of truth you cannot seeAre flashing thro' Eternity--”

“Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

“And all my days are trances,And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy dark eye glances,And where thy footstep gleams--In what ethereal dances,By what eternal streams!”

“I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?”

“If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?”

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”