“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?”

“If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.”

“Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.”

“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.”

“Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.”

“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?”

“The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.”