When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.