Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.