The end of government is the happiness of the people.

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

A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.