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

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

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.