We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

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.

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.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.