“There are men too, who have not virtue enough to be angry...He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine:...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1 There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which,...

Fabius: “I should be more faint-hearted than they make me, if, through fear of idle reproaches, I should abandon my own convictions. It is no inglorious thing to have fear for the safety of our country, but to be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation, shows a man unfit to hold an office such as this, which, by such conduct, he makes the slaves of those whose errors it is his business to control.”

The next year, Hamilton published two more poems in the paper, now recreating himself as a somber religious poet. The change in heart can almost certainly be attributed to the advent in St. Croix of a Presbyterian minister named Hugh Knox. Born in northern Ireland of Scottish ancestry, the handsome young Knox migrated to America and became a schoolteacher in Delaware. As a raffish young man, he exhibited a lukewarm piety until a strange incident transformed his life. One Satu

"Men, the lecture-room of the philosopher is a hospital; you ought not to walk out of it in pleasure, but in pain."