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

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.