A Flatterer Never Seems Absurd: The Flatter'd

Some Books We Read, Tho' Few There Are That Hit The Happy Point Where Wisdom Joins With Wit.

People Are Best Convinced By Things They Themselves Discover.

It Is The Duty Of Mankind On All Suitable Occasions To Acknowledge Their Dependence On The Divine Being... Almighty God Would Mercifully Interpose And Still The Rage Of War Among The Nations... He Would Take This Province Under His Protection, Confound The Designs And Defeat The Attempts Of Its Enemies, And Unite Our Hearts And Strengthen Our Hands In Every Undertaking That May Be For The Public Good, And For Our Defense And Security In This Time Of Danger.

It Is Ill-manners To Silence A Fool And Cruelty To Let Him Go On

[e]very Man Who Comes Among Us, And Takes Up A Piece Of Land, Becomes A Citizen, And By Our Constitution Has A Voice In Elections, And A Share In The Government Of The Country.