“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficult
“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him
“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.