Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

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