Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.