The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.
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.