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

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.

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.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

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

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.