Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.