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

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

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

“With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.”

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”

“Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.”

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