We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.