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

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

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

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

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

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.