The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

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.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.