Misgive that you may not mistake.

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

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

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.

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

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.

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