One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.