The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.