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.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

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

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.

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.