A Good Writer Does Not Write As

I Have Never Known Any Distress That An Hour's Reading Did Not Relieve.

There Is No One, Says Another, Whom Fortune Does Not Visit Once In His Life; But When She Does Not Find Him Ready To Receive Her, She Walks In At The Door, And Flies Out At The Window.

Christians Are Beginning To Lose The Spirit Of Intolerance Which Animated Them: Experience Has Shown The Error Of The Expulsion Of The Jews From Spain, And Of The Persecution Of Those Christians In France Whose Belief Differed A Little From That Of The King. They Have Realized That Zeal For The Advancement Of Religion Is Different From A Due Attachment To It; And That In Order To Love It And Fulfil Its Behests, It Is Not Necessary To Hate And Persecute Those Who Are Opposed To It.

Passion Makes Us Feel, But Never See Clearly.

It Is Clear That In A Monarchy, Where He Who Commands The Exceution Of The Laws Generally Thinks Himself Above Them, There Is Lessneed Of Virtue Than In A Popular Government, Where The Person Entrusted With The Execution Of The Laws Is Sensible Of His Being Subject To Their Direction.