If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

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.

The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.