Being just return’d to Town from a little Excursion I find yours of the 22d containing a Number of Queries that would require a Pamphlet...

There are those in the World who would not wrong a Neighbour, but make no Scruple of cheating the King. The Reverse however does not...

Advice to younger Friends. Treat your Wife always with Respect. It will procure Respect to you, not from her only, but from all that...

I have received your kind Letter of Sept. the 22nd. And from another Friend a Copy of that lying Essay in which I am represented as the...

As to the Reports you mention that are spread to my Disadvantage, I give myself as little Concern about them as possible. I have often...

I do not wonder at the Behaviour you mention of Dr. Smith towards me, for I have long since known him thoroughly. I made that Man my...

I should be glad to know what it is that distinguishes Connecticut Religion from common Religion: Communicate, if you please, some of...

‘Tis a kind of Audacity to call such general Opinions in question, and may subject one to Censure: But we must hazard something in what...

Two of the former Members of the Junto you tell me are departed this Life, Potts and Parsons. Odd Characters, both of them. Parsons, a...

you may remember an Ancient Poet whose Words we have all Studied and Copy’d at School said, long ago, A Man of Words and not of Deeds, Is...

The meaning of Three Stories higher seems somewhat obscure, you are to understand, then, that Faith, Hope and Charity have been called...

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it? Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography, Poor Richard,...

When Pompey learned this he ordered his infantry not to advance farther, not to break the line of formation, and not to hurl the javelin,...

Caesar was still a young man, but powerful in speech and action, audacious in every way, sanguine (confident) in everything, and profuse...

About the same time dissensions arose in the city between debtors and creditors, since the latter exacted the money due to them with...

Having received certain Gallic reinforcement he again drew near to Sulla and just as the two armies were coming to an engagement a Gaul...

But so it is: we tribes of woeful humans never enter upon enjoyment with a sure foot, but always alongside our happiness marches some...

Then, after those people, they passed a sacred mountain and the land where the Mossynoecians dwell in the mountains in ‘mossynes,’ and...

Then, beyond those people, they immediately rounded the headland of Zeus Genetaeus and sped past the land of the Tibarenians. There, when...

For mortals are never permitted to escape destiny, but its great net I spread all around them. Apollonius. Apollonius Rhodius,...

It is this spirit which has commonly sent great nations crashing down, when one party desires to triumph over another by any means at all...

Furthermore, the institution of political groups and factions, and afterward of all evil practices, originated at Rome a few years before...

Unless these actions are investigated by a tribunal, unless the guilty are punished, what will remain except to pass our lives in...

For harmony makes small states great, while the mightiest are undone by discord. Sallust. Sallust, The War with Catiline, The War with...