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.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Love is full of imagination.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

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.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.