Great Men Are Never Sufficiently Shown But

An Event Has Happened, Upon Which It Is Difficult To Speak, And Impossible To Be Silent.

Nothing Turns Out To Be So Oppressive And Unjust As A Feeble Government.

Our Manners, Our Civilization, And All The Good Things Connected With Manners And Civilization, Have, In This European World Of Ours, Depended For Ages Upon Two Principles: I Mean The Spirit Of A Gentleman, And The Spirit Of Religion.

Passion For Fame: A Passion Which Is The Instinct Of All Great Souls.

Taste And Elegance, Though They Are Reckoned Only Among The Smaller And Secondary Morals, Yet Are Of No Mean Importance In The Regulations Of Life. A Moral Taste Is Not Of Force To Turn Vice Into Virtue; But It Recommends Virtue With Something Like The Blandishments Of Pleasure, And It Infinitely Abates The Evils Of Vice.