To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.