A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

In sovereignty there are no gradations.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.