People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.