Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.

Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer used for attending church, but only for good deeds.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.