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

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people