... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.