Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving...
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised...
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart...
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the...
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose...
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die...
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have...
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the...
I believe though I do not comprehend and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp...
I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves and...
And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing I despatch...
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India......
My faith inasmuch as I have any is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell...
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing and far...