The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book. — Thomas Carlyle

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.

Be not the slave of Words.

Love not Pleasure; love God.