All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

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.

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.

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

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.