It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.