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

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

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.