The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.