Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.