The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.