No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.