Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.