Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.