"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--"
"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."
"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"
"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"
"Where thou art, that is home."
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."