Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

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

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