Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

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

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.