"Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repos…"

"Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey."

"It is the trifles of life that are its bores, after all. Most men can meet ruin calmly, for instance, or laugh when t…"

"When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life c…"

"Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss."

"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."