if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

Ideals are the world's masters.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.