When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

You can never plan the future by the past.

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

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.