English poem
Of all the safest ways of Life
by Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
Of all the safest ways of Life the safest way is still to doubt, Men win the future world with Faith, the present world they win without.
This is the Spaniards:
De las cosas mas seguras, mas seguro es duvidar;
a typically modern sentiment of the Brazen Age of Science following the Golden Age of Sentiment. But the Pilgrim continues:
The sages say: I tell thee no! with equal faith all Faiths receive; None more, none less, for Doubt is Death: they live the most who most believe.