When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

A vow is a snare for sin

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.