I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart
— Dorothy Sayers
We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.
— William Hazlitt
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.