A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

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

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

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.