Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.