Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.