As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

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 who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.