The synonyme of usury is ruin.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.