Power is not happiness.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

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

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.