Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Faith is necessary to victory.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.