The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.