Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.