It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.