"One more long happy Sunday had joined the pale golden Sundays that are gone. Better — to us at any rate — than Sunday…"

"Laura looked up at the shelf of her novels, with Adrian Coates's name on their backs. She had been lucky, she thought…"

"The organ pealed forth, though never except in fiction does it do this, rather blaring and bursting, or in more refin…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."

"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not fo…"

"Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the v…"