“Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.”
“Honest error may play prologue to wonders.”
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. ”
“There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.”
“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler it is so much the sooner will ridicule and contempt drive it from real life.”