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

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.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

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

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.