But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

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.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

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

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.