Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.