Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.