I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.