The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.