Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

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.