Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain to be either proved or disproved by.. .comparison with observed facts.