 There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. |
| Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. |
| 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. |
| What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. |
| Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. |
| Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. |
| Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. |
| Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? |
| They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' |
| The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. |
| Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. |
| A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. |
| To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. |
| I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. |
| Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. |
| The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. |
| If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. |
| The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. |
| No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. |
| We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. |
