A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of the news-writer is easy; they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, in which we and our friends, whether conquering or conquered, did all, and our enemies did nothing.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.