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

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

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

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.