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.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

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.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.