The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Biography is the best form of history.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.