And, After All, The Athanasian

If People Would Dare To Speak To One Another Unreservedly, There Would Be A Good Deal Less Sorrow In The World A Hundred Years Hence.

If God Wants Us To Do A Thing, He Should Make His Wishes Sufficiently Clear. Sensible People Will Wait Till He Has Done This Before Paying Much Attention To Him.

My Main Wish Is To Get My Books Into Other People's Rooms, And To Keep Other People's Books Out Of Mine.

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.