You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.