Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

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.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

My mind is my own church.

These are the times that try men's souls.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.