Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.