I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

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.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.