Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

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

A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.