We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

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.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Human improvement is from within outward.

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