It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.