For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.