What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.