“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Mary Augusta Ward book Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mary Augusta Ward was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
She worked to improve education for the poor and she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. Wikipedia

“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Mary Augusta Ward book Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“This Laodicean cant of tolerance.”
Mary Augusta Ward book 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 book 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 book Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere. Book vi. Chap. xxxviii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).