I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

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

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.