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

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.