Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

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

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

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.