It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

To innovate is not to reform.