People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.