I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.