Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

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.

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 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.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.