I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.