For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.