Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.