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

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

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