Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

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My chief sin is doubt. I doubt everything and am in doubt nearly all the time.''Doubt is natural to human weakness,' repeated the priest.

My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.