Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

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.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.