The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.