Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them