One real world is enough.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.