He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.