London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.