The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.