History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.