A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.