It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

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 will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.