Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.