History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.