The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.