After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.