“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.”

“My first thought was, he lied in every word,That hoary cripple, with malicious eyeAskance to watch the working of his lieOn mine, and mouth scarce able to affordSuppression of the glee, that pursed and scoredIts edge, at one more victim gained thereby.”

“Without love, our earth is a tomb”

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”

“God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. ”

“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents”

“In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —And thus we half-men struggle.”