Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.