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.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.