They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.