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.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

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

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

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.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.