Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

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

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

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.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.