It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.