For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

There is no wealth but love.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!