He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

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

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.