. . . it is no disparagement to logic as a science or an art, to say, that the excessive study how to reason often impairs the ability to reason. The best way to make a man a good carpenter is not to confine his attention to his tools, but to set him to work. So, as has often been said, the best way to make a logician is to set him to study Euclid, or, as any old student of Princeton Seminary would say, set him to study Turrettin.
– Charles Hodge, ”Autobiography” in The Life of Charles Hodge, A. A. Hodge, 1–38 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1880), 24; freely available via Google Books.
