I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.