Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.