Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.