The history of art is the history of revivals.- Samuel Butler
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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.
