As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.