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.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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.

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

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

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.