One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

My vocation to preach on paper.

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.