That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!