A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.