Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

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.