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

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.