One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. - Coventry Patmore

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know".

The history of creation, regarded by some in very early ages as probably "mythical," has, indeed, been proved to be certainly so, but the myth includes teaching of much more significance to us than the supposed history, and everyone should be glad to discover this additional proof that the aim of the writers of Scripture was not to satisfy an idle curiosity about facts which do not concern us. The doctrine of evolution promises to be of very easy assimilation by the Church.

The difference between a commonly well-behaved woman and a high-bred lady consists in very small things—but what a difference it is!