... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.