We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.