Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.