The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.