Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Absolute power demoralizes.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.