Better too much form than too little.

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

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

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.

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.