Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.