Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

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

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.