I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.