Life delights in life.
He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
One law for the lion and ox is oppression.
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.