For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.