Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Those who attempt to level never equalize

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.