Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. |
Patience will achieve more than force. |
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. |
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. |
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors |
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing |
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting |
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. |
Public calamity is a mighty leveler |
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. |
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. |
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. |
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. |
She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one |
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |