“Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul
“God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her
“The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls
“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul
“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.