If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.