They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

Atheism is too theological.

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.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain