The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.