For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

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

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

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.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.