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.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.