Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

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

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

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