Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.