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.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

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

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.