The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.