balm quotes

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Jeremiah 8:22.

The poet and the dreamer are distinct, Diverse, sheer opposite, antipodes. The one pours out a balm upon the world, The other vexes it.

-John Keats
  'The Fall of Hyperion', l.199^202. (Published1856.)

Salve to thy sores, apt words have power to suage The tumours of a troubl'd mind, And are as Balm to fester'd wounds.

-John Milton
Samson  Agonistes, l.184^6.

Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.

- Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway Shute
Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 39.