Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.