Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.