Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.