Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

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

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

nobody ever intends to be old.

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.