Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.