Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.