Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

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

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.