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

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

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.

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.

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.