The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

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

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"