The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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.

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

Dangers by being despised grow great.