Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.