A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?