Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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.