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

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

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

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

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.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.