All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.