The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.