Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

Time makes more converts than reason.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.