Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.