You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.