We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us..

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people..

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow..

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system..

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains..

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go o….

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away..

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the….

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one….

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have….

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - ….

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in wh….

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment..

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best..

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation..

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep..

We all grow on somebody's grave..

But no man has a monopoly of conscience..

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of….

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - i….