"I foresee that I shall not readily be forgiven for having taken up the position I have adopted. Setting myself up aga…"

"It is a noble and beautiful spectacle to see man raising himself, so to speak, from nothing by his own exertions; dis…"

"So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literatu…"

"Necessity raised up thrones; the arts and sciences have made them strong. Powers of the earth, cherish all talents an…"

"Richness of apparel may proclaim the man of fortune,and elegance the man of taste; but true health and manliness are …"

"Before art had moulded our behaviour, and taught our passions to speak an artificial language, our morals were rude b…"

"In our day, now that more subtle study and a more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing to a system, there p…"

"Not all the eloquence of Demosthenes could breathe life into a body which luxury and the arts had once enervated."

"Rome, once the shrine of virtue, became the theatre of vice, a scorn among the nations, and an object of derision eve…"

"The following pages contain a discussion of one of the most sublime and interesting of all moral questions. It is not…"