A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

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

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

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

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.