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.

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

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.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

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

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.