“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Quotes from book
Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere is a novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward published in 1888. It was immediately successful, quickly selling over a million copies and gaining the admiration of Henry James.
“This Laodicean cant of tolerance.”
Robert Elsmere. Book ii. Chap. xii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.”
Robert Elsmere. Book iv. Chap. xxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.”
Robert Elsmere. Book vi. Chap. xxxviii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
