Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Was ever poet so trusted before?
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.