The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.