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.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

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.