Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.