I always get the better when I argue alone.
So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!