No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.