Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

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

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

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

Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.