He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

By writing, you learn to write.

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

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.