If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.