A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

To innovate is not to reform.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.