Darkness Is Strong, And So Is Sin,

Truth Always Has A Bewitching Savor Of Newness In It, And Novelty At The First Taste Recalls That Original Sweetness To The Tongue; But Alas For Him Who Would Make The One A Substitute For The Other.

For Men In Earnest Have No Time To Waste In Patching Fig-leaves For The Naked Truth.

In Creating, The Only Hard Thing Is To Begin: A Grass Blade's No Easier To Make Than An Oak.

Never Did Poesy Appear So Full Of Heaven To Me, As When I Saw How It Would Pierce Through Pride And Fear To The Lives Of Coarsest Men.

A Friendship Counting Nearly Forty Years Is The Finest Kind Of Shade-tree I Know.