Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

Better too much form than too little.

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.