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

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.