Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

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

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

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

The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

The end of government is the happiness of the people.