When shall the saner softer polities

It is commonly said that no man was ever converted by argument, but there is a single one which will make any Laodicean in England, let him be once love-sick, wear prayer-books and become a zealous Episcopalian – the argument that his …

Good, but not religious-good.

To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience.

With all, the beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which will make a passing love permanent for ever.

To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash …

For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.