In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

Those who attempt to level never equalize

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.