He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.