We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

We all grow on somebody's grave.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

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

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.