We had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.