The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.