Quotes with modification

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.