The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.