Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.