Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.