Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

The expected always happens

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.