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.

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.