The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It….

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do..

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want..

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity..

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil..

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth..

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the na….

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air..

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

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber th….

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

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they alwa….

The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had ….

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary..

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves..

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support..

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance..

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him..

Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a ….

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality….

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its d….