Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

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.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

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

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.