The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

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.

Better too much form than too little.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

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