Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it.