A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

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.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.