I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

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

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.