I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.