Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.