How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.