It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.