All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

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

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.