Thus, If The Clarity Of Our Thoughts

It Is Better To Debate A Question Without Settling It Than To Settle A Question Without Debating It.

Lenity Is A Part Of Justice; But She Must Not Speak Too Loud For Fear Of Waking Justice.

What Can One Possibly Introduce Into A Mind That Is Already Full, And Full Of Itself?

The God Of Metaphysics Is But An Idea. But The God Of Religion, The Maker Of Heaven And Earth, The Sovereign Judge Of Actions And Thoughts, Is A Power.

I Would Fain Coin Wisdom,—mould It, I Mean, Into Maxims, Proverbs, Sentences, That Can Easily Be Retained And Transmitted. Would That I Could Denounce And Banish From The Language Of Men—as Base Money—the Words By Which They Cheat And Are Cheated!