Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

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