With effervescing opinions, as with the not yet forgotten champagne, the quickest way to let them go flat is to let them get exposed to the air.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic.