Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?'

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

But whatever the deity which satisfied Arnold's personal experience may have been, the religion which he gives us in Literature and Dogma and God and the Bible…

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, 'To make reason and the will of God prevail.'

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she t…

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.