One source of the sublime is infinity.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
War never leaves where it found a nation.
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.