A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
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.
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.