Commands Faculties Quotes by Francis Herbert Hedge

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

— Francis Herbert Hedge