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.

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 are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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

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.

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.