The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused. Newspapers, magazines, and circulating libraries have made mankind wiser. Titles and distinctions, ranks and orders, parade and ceremony, are all going out of fashion. This is roundly and frequently asserted in the streets, and sometimes on theatres of higher rank. Some truth there is in it; and if the opportunity were temperately improved, to the reformation of abuses, the rectification of errors, and the dissipation of pernicious prejudices, a great advantage it might be. But, on the other hand, false inferences may be drawn from it, which may make mankind wish for the age of dragons, giants, and fairies.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest dispositions discove…

Are riches, honors, and beauty going out of fashion? Is not the rage for them, on the contrary, increased faster than improvement in knowledge? As long as eith…

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - …

That's what the problem is with the Internet, this great escape that we have, everything automatically becomes fact!

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance w…

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.