A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

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

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.