The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.