No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.