To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
War never leaves where it found a nation.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.
It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.