Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

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

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

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.