“...and youth, strength, genius, thoughts, achievements, simple hearts-all dies...No matter.”

“[…] but I remember I preferred the soldier to the philosopher at the time; a preference which life has only confirmed. One was a man, and the other was either more – or less. However, they are both dead, and Mrs Beard is dead, and youth, strength, genius, thoughts, achievements, simple hearts – all dies… No matter.”

“Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.”

“God’s revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of human brains to adorn or enforce it; but it does demand the simplicity, the docility, humility, and faith of a child’s heart.”

“All geniuses die young.”

“If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.”