There's looks as speaks as strong as words.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

All perfection is melancholy.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.