You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

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

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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.