A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Was ever poet so trusted before?
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.