We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.