Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.