It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. — Sydney Smith. English writer and clergyman (1771–1845)
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.