News is history in its first and best form, its vivid and fascinating form . . . history is the pale and tranquil reflection of it.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

No prejudice has even been able to prove its case in the court of reason.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.