We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.