Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.
If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
If you would know and not be known live in a city.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.
Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.