Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.