Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Grief is a species of idleness.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.