I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.