'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.