Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others.
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires.
England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.