The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

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

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.