The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

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.

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

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.