I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.