An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.