Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

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

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.