"I have read somewhere or other, — in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, — that history is philosophy teaching by examples."

“You may observe yourself...what a difference there is between the true strength of this nation and the fictitious one of the Whigs. How much time, how many lucky incidents, how many strains of power, how much money must go to create a majority of the latter; on the other hand, take but off the opinion that the Crown is another way inclined, the church interest rises with redoubled force, and by its natural genuine strength.”

“They maintained the dignity of history.”

“Royal Berkshire History: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke”

“The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it.”

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”

“It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.”