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

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

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

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.