Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.