Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And even trained minds, when all their training is on a special subject, and does not extend to the general principles of induction, are only kept right when there are ready opportunities of verifying their inferences by facts.

It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.