Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.