Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.