There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.