The march of the human mind is slow.
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.