George Croly Quotes

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

Nature's first great title--mind.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!