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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!
Robert Elsmere (1888)
There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people.
The History of David Grieve (1891)
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!
Robert Elsmere (1888)
But the mind travels far—and mysteriously—in sleep.
A Writer's Recollections (1918)
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
A Writer's Recollections (1918)
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance—show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
The History of David Grieve (1891)
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?
The History of David Grieve (1891)
"Propinquity does it"—as Mrs Thornburgh is always reminding us.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realise all they tell us.
The History of David Grieve (1891)
Learn the lesson of your own pain—learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul—in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.
To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject matter, when one comes to write about it.
A Writer's Recollections (1918)
Conviction is the Conscience of the Mind.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
The only thing which can keep journalism alive—journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment—is—again, the Stevensonian secret!—charm.
A Writer's Recollections (1918)
This Laodicean cant of tolerance.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
[T]he better life cannot be imposed from without—it must grow from within.
The History of David Grieve (1891)