The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
Everything hangs on one's thinking.
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.