People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.