There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.