The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.