Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.