What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

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

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.