The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.