I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.