A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.