 Custom reconciles us to everything. |
| Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. |
| Falsehood is a perennial spring. |
| Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. |
| 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 most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. |
| Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. |
| Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Topics: Art |
| Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. |
| People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. |
| Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. |
| It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. |
| He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. |
| Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. |
| But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. |
| Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. |
| Ambition can creep as well as soar. |
| The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. |
| Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. |
| All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. |
| To innovate is not to reform. |
