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.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.