When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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.
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.