Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.