There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.