"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…"

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

"I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light. All calm, as it was bright; And round ben…"