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

Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.