A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.