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

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.

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.

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

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

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.