Taxation without representation is tyranny.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

My mind to me a kingdom is,<br> Such present joys therein I find,<br> That it excels all other bliss.

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

But far more numerous was the herd of such,<br> Who think too little and who talk too much.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.