It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

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

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers