But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

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

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.