In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of the news-writer is easy; they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, in which we and our friends, whether conquering or conquered, did all, and our enemies did nothing.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.