Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.