The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not of trade but of thought.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.