Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

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

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

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

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.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.