Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.