We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

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.

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

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

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

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.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'