And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

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

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.