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

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

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.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.