Ridicule Has Followed The Vestiges Of Truth,

Every Sect Is A Moral Check On Its Neighbour. Competition Is As Wholesome In Religion As In Commerce.

There Is No More Certain Sign Of A Narrow Mind, Of Stupidity, And Of Arrogance, Than To Stand Aloof From Those Who Think Differently From Us.

Principles Do Not Mainly Influence Even The Principled; We Talk On Principle, But We Act On Interest.

In Honest Truth, A Name Given To A Man Is No Better Than A Skin Given To Him; What Is Not Natively His Own Falls Off And Comes To Nothing.

Circumstances Form The Character; But, Like Petrifying Matters, They Harden While They Form.