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Happiness is no laughing matter.
Misgive that you may not mistake.
Better too much form than too little.
Good manners are a part of good morals.
It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.
We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.
knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.
A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.