Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.