Quotation by Jeremy Taylor

Every schoolboy knows it.
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), British churchman, devotional writer. The Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, sct. 5 (1654).

What "every schoolboy knows" is that "This thing ... that can be understood and not expressed, may take a neuter gender."
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