Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.