The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.