The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.