To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.