One example is worth a thousand arguments.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.