He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.