The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

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.

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

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.

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