Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

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

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

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.

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

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