To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

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.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

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

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!