Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

My mind is my own church.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.