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

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.