A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.