Better not be at all than not be noble.
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?