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

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

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

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.