People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. – Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler
Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. – Samuel Butler
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. – Winston Churchill