I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real — 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, — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
