It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.