High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.