The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.