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

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.

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

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.

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

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.