Will Johnson
Will Johnson
mind taxation sound
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.
law action virtue
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.
troublesome
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
mind disease obstinate
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
failing
A fallible being will fail somewhere.
country wife spy
A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.
travel ancient modern
Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.
travel entertainment remember
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
determined moments reviews
Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.
truth men parent
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.
truth choices
Truth allows no choice.
truth may strange
Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
usury ruins
The synonyme of usury is ruin.
heart thinking vanity
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.