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.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Better too much form than too little.

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