Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.