Be Civil To All; Sociable To Many;

Some Will Read Only Old Books, As If There Were No Valuable Truths To Be Discovered In Modern Publications: Others Will Only Read New Books, As If Some Valuable Truths Are Not Among The Old. Some Will Not Read A Book Because They Know The Author: Others . . . Would Also Read The Man.

The Divine Right Of Kings May Have Been A Plea For Feeble Tyrants, But The Divine Right Of Government Is The Keystone Of Human Progress, And Without It Governments Sink Into Police, And A Nation Is Degraded Into A Mob.

We Moralize Among Ruins.

Sir, Very Few People Reach Posterity. Who Amongst Us May Arrive At That Destination I Presume Not To Vaticinate. Posterity Is A Most Limited Assembly. Those Gentlemen Who Reach Posterity Are Not Much More Numerous Than The Planets.

The Expected Always Happens