Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.