All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

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.

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.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

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

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