All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion ….

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another..

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresi….

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time..

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of th….

To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and y….

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions..

You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift..

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present..

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life..

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one e….

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy..

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the ….

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them..

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been b….

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world..

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living..

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct..

Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill..

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of go….

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all ….