I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

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

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

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

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.