Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.