Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

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

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?