One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

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.