As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.