In effect to follow not to force the public inclination, to give a direction a form a technical dress and a specific sanction to the general sense of the community is the true end of legislature.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.