When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.