History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.