Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

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.

Happiness is no laughing matter.