"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality." — Thomas Babington Macaulay

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.