A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.