However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.