Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

I was struck all on a heap.