To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.