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

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.