Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Slander is the solace of malignity.
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.