A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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