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.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

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.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.