Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.