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

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

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.

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.