Liberty Does Not Exist In The Absence

There Is A Wide Difference Between Admiration And Love. The Sublime, Which Is The Cause Of The Former, Always Dwells On Great Objects And Terrible; The Latter On Small Ones And Pleasing; We Submit To What We Admire, But We Love What Submits To Us: In One Case We Are Forced, In The Other, We Are Flattered, Into Compliance.

Good Company, Lively Conversation, And The Endearments Of Friendship Fill The Mind With Great Pleasure.

People Will Not Look Forward To Posterity, Who Never Look Backward To Their Ancestors.

History Is A Pact Between The Dead, The Living, And The Yet Unborn.

Though Ugliness Be The Opposite Of Beauty, It Is Not The Opposite To Proportion And Fitness; For It Is Possible That A Thing May Be Very Ugly With Any Proportions, And With A Perfect Fitness For Any Use.