Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

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

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.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

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

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.