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

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.