Edmund Burke: “Distress, great, never teaches wise lessons to mankind, iv. 10.”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.