Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

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

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.