Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.