As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.