It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.