“The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.”

“We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.”

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”

“A man well-known to be a liar had just told a most improbable story. “Sir, while I believe you,” someone said, “you must admit that it's very wrong of truth not to condescend to be more plausible.””

“I personally believe that war is highly unlikely.”

“My old skill at self-delusion overrode my doubts as I told myself that Dexter probably believed in me. I could believe anything then. I still can as long as it is improbable.”

“Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.”

“I believe that it is possible to overlegislate ourselves into a highly restrictive form of government.”

“What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.”

“Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.”