Passion For Fame: A Passion Which Is

Not Men But Measures A Sort Of Charm By Which Many People Get Loose From Every Honorable Engagement.

The Most Important Of All Revolutions, A Revolution In Sentiments, Manners And Moral Opinions.

As To Great And Commanding Talents, They Are The Gift Of Providence In Some Way Unknown To Us, They Rise Where They Are Least Expected; They Fail When Everything Seems Disposed To Produce Them, Or At Least To Call Them Forth.

And Having Looked To Government For Bread, On The Very First Scarcity They Will Turn And Bite The Hand That Fed Them.

Men Are Qualified For Civil Liberty In Exact Proportion To Their Disposition To Put Moral Chains Upon Their Own Appetites.