We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion, without the discomfort of thought.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.

The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.