Here Let Me Sit In Sorrow For

Amid Thy Desert-walks The Lapwing Flies, And Tires Their Echoes With Unvaried Cries.

In Arguing One Should Meet Serious Pleading With Humor, And Humor With Serious Pleading.

Measures, Not Men, Have Always Been My Mark.

Religion Does What Philosophy Could Never Do; It Shows The Equal Dealings Of Heaven To The Happy And The Unhappy, And Levels All Human Enjoyments To Nearly The Same Standard. It Gives To Both Rich And Poor The Same Happiness Hereafter, And Equal Hopes To Aspire After It.

The Whitewash'd Wall, The Nicely Sanded Floor, The Varnish'd Clock That Click'd Behind The Door; The Chest, Contriv'd A Double Debt To Pay,- A Bed By Night, A Chest Of Drawers By Day.