Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.