Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.