"Did God create man, merely in the end to become dead earth in the midst of healthful vegetating nature?"

"in the midst of despair we performed the tasks of hope."

"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"

"Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pagea…"

"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even the enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone."