The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
Boswell is the first of biographers.