Great And Terrible Systems Of Divinity And

What We Opprobriously Call Stupidity, Though Not An Enlivening Quality In Common Society, Is Nature's Favorite Resource For Preserving Steadiness Of Conduct And Consistency Of Opinion.

All The Inducements Of Early Society Tend To Foster Immediate Action; All Its Penalties Fall On The Man Who Pauses; The Traditional Wisdom Of Those Times Was Never Weary Of Inculcating That "delays Are Dangerous," And That The Sluggish Man The Man "who Roasteth Not That Which He Took In Hunting" Will Not Prosper On The Earth, And Indeed Will Very Soon Perish Out Of It. And In Consequence An Inability To Stay Quiet, An Irritable Desire To Act Directly, Is One Of The Most Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.

It Is Good To Be Without Vices, But It Is Not Good To Be Without Temptations.

A Severe Though Not Unfriendly Critic Of Our Institutions Said That The Cure For Admiring The House Of Lords Was To Go And Look At It.

The Sovereign Has, Under A Constitutional Monarchy Such As Ours, Three Rights - The Right To Be Consulted, The Right To Encourage, The Right To Warn. And A King Of Great Sense And Sagacity Would Want No Others.