It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

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

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

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.

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?'

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

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