"The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds."

"It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty."

"The works of God are great and wonderful, but the works of man are often small and contemptible."

"Imperial expansion is preferable to civil war, and that Britain is faced with something of a binary choice."

"Friends are thieves of time."