Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.