We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers.
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.