If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.