No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.