All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

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.

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.