Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.