The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.