“With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.”

“Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.”

“I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.”

“I think that the measure of whether a life has been a good one is how much love there has been in that life--love both given and received.”

“Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receives an idea that does not evoke a feeling. Everything stirs him and everything is retained within him.When the soul has been moved by an object itself, it is even more affected by the memory of the object. But in a man of genius imagination goes further: it recalls ideas with a more vivid feeling than it received them, because to these ideas are connected a thousand others more appropriate to arouse the feeling.”

“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”