The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

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.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

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

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.