To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their…

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes right reas…

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce o…

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite …

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract rea…

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke