What we expect, that we find.

They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.