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.

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.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.