The Effective Strength Of Sects Is Not

The Business Of The Dramatist Is To Keep Himself Out Of Sight, And To Let Nothing Appear But His Characters. As Soon As He Attracts Notice To His Personal Feelings, The Illusion Is Broken.

Even The Law Of Gravitation Would Be Brought Into Dispute Were There A Pecuniary Interest Involved.

None Of The Modes By Which A Magistrate Is Appointed, Popular Election, The Accident Of The Lot, Or The Accident Of Birth, Affords, As Far As We Can Perceive, Much Security For His Being Wiser Than Any Of His Neighbours. The Chance Of His Being Wiser Than All His Neighbours Together Is Still Smaller.

He Who, In An Enlightened And Literary Society, Aspires To Be A Great Poet, Must First Become A Little Child.

People Crushed By Law Have No Hopes But From Power. If Laws Are Their Enemies, They Will Be Enemies To Laws.