For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

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.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.