“The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.”

“To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.”

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”

“If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.”

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.”

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”