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" I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Sometimes men 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 fourteen.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
