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

"It is a thing that ever accompanies great parts, that those that have them are not soon satisfied."

"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."

"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it."

"For in the mind of man, there is a natural evil, a natural darkness, which, unless it be purged and illuminated, will ever be prone to error."