Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

No one ever became great by imitation.