In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

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.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.