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

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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