Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

Our best history is still poetry.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.