The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.