The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.