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.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

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

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Love is full of imagination.