My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.