We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.