A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium.

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

After wisdom comes wit.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.