"I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer"

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"

"I believe in prayer and in strong belief"

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer"

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

"What a nice night for an evening"

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"