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

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.