“And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.”

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

“It is right it should be so:Man was made for joy and woe;And when this we rightly knowThrough the world we safely go.”

“Pity would be no more,If we did not make somebody poor.Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.”

“Man was made for joy and woeThen when this we rightly knowThrough the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fineA clothing for the soul to bind.”

“Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.”

“The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.”