The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

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

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

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.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.