Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

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.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.