Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.