A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.