There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.