Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. - Samuel Johnson

It might as well be said, "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."

He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it.

It must be agreed that in most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.