The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.