We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.