He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.