If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
No one does anything from a single motive.
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.