The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a considerable degree in all ages As civilization extended, they by one means or another became most wonderfully dispersed through all countries; and at this day they are almost literally everywhere, the most conspicuous, and in the eye of reason and religion, the most respectable nation on the face of the earth.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.