| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ability | Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. |
| Accident | Chapter of accidents. |
| Agreement | Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. |
| America | A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. |
| Ancestry | People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. |
| Ancestry | Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. |
| Applause | We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. |
| Authorship | Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. |
| Business | When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. |
| Character | He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. |
| Character | All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. |
| Charity | No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. |
| Chastity | That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound. |
| Comparisons | It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. |
| Compromise | All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. |
| Country | There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. |
| Curiosity | The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. |
| Delight | I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. |
| Democracy | A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. |
| Disgrace | The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! |
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