Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.