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

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

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