"As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing."

"Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven."

"Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm re…"

"There is in God — some say — A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See no…"

"Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race."

"When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a g…"

"Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move."

"I cannot reach it, and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that chronicle alive, Those white desi…"

"Why should I not love childhood still? Why, if I see a rock or shelf, Shall I from thence cast down myself? Or by com…"

"Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and be…"