Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.