The ideas must be content to fight a long time before they assimilate all the wholesome flesh in the universe, and we cannot leave what works somehow for what only promises to work, and has yet by no means largely realised that promise.

I consider it a bad sign in the thinkers among the Christian Socialists if they set to cursing those who don't agree with them.

The multitudes must, but the thinkers should not.

I cannot believe that if Clement of Alexandria had been asked whether he candidly believed Tacitus was damned because he was a heathen he would have said 'Yes.' Indeed, on indifferent matters (supposing he had been alive in Tacitus's time), I don't think he would have minded writing a leader in the Acta Diurna, even though Tacitus followed on the other side!" Oxford, and its old clothes, Froude had cast behind him.

He had never taken priest's orders, and the clerical disabilities imposed upon him were not only cruel, but ridiculous.