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.

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

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.

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.

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

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.