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

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

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 conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.