To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

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.

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

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