A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.