The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.