Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.