why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.