He That Thinks He Can Afford To

When Speculation Has Done Its Worst, Two And Two Still Make Four.

By Forbearing To Do What May Innocently Be Done, We May Add Hourly New Vigor To Resolution.

It Seems Not More Reasonable To Leave The Right Of Printing Unrestrained, Because Writers May Be Afterwards Censured, Than It Would Be To Sleep With Doors Unbolted, Because By Our Laws We Can Hang A Thief.

Flattery Pleases Very Generally. In The First Place, The Flatterer May Think What He Says To Be True; But, In The Second Place, Whether He Thinks So Or Not, He Certainly Thinks Those Whom He Flatters Of Consequence Enough To Be Flattered.

Ignorance, When It Is Voluntary, Is Criminal.