The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.