Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.