We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

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.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

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

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.