Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

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

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

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

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.

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

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.