With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.