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.

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.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

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

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.