“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Mary Augusta Ward книга Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Мэри Уорд — английская писательница, свои произведения подписывала как Mrs. Humphry Ward, под фамилией мужа — Томаса Уорда . Также — общественная деятельница. Wikipedia

“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Mary Augusta Ward книга Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“This Laodicean cant of tolerance.”
Mary Augusta Ward книга Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere. Book ii. Chap. xii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.”
Mary Augusta Ward книга Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere. Book iv. Chap. xxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.”
Mary Augusta Ward книга Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere. Book vi. Chap. xxxviii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).