He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.