Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.