Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

The mills of God grind slowly.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.