God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.