Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.