Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.