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| Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little | | Mistakes | |
| Not merely a chip off the old `block', but the old block itself. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. | | Religion | |
| Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. | | Uncategorized | |
| One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our patience will achieve more than our force. | | Patience | |
| Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. | | Uncategorized | |
| Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. | | Uncategorized | |
| Patience will achieve more than force. | | Patience | |
| People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. | | Uncategorized | |
| People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. | | Uncategorized | |
| People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors | | Posterity | |
| Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing | | Art; Poetry | |
| Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting | | Passion; Poetry | |
| Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. | | Uncategorized | |
| Public calamity is a mighty leveler | | Disaster | |
