Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.