The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.