Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. |
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. |
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know |
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. |
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise. |
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. |
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. |
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. |
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. |
That man is idle who can do something better |
That which builds is better than that which is built. |
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart. |
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us |
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. |
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so |