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.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.