The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

The old echoes are long in dying.

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

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

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