6 quotes
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm.
Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846)
Faith, as an intellectual state, is self-reliance, which, if you have a metaphysical turn, you will find is not so much of a paradox as it sounds at first.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (1859)
Wake in our breast the living fires,
The holy faith that warmed our sires;
Thy hand hath made our nation free;
To die for her is serving Thee.
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)