Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

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