Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.