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.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

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.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.