Language is the machine of the poet.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.