“ Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

“ To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ”

“ Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ”

“ It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ”

“ No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ”

“ But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ”

“ Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ”

“ When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ”

“ Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ”

“ All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ”