There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.