Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.