Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.