Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.