“It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.”

“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”

“It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.”

“The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.”

“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”

“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.”

“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.”