Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

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

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.