Junius

Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather
that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip read more

Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather
that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his
plumage, and you fix him to the earth.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art read more

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.

The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an
example to deter.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an
example to deter.