Let every man be true and every god a liar.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
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.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.