Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.