
"Catholics", published in The Edinburgh Review (1827)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
"Catholics", published in The Edinburgh Review (1827)
Letter 8.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.”
Book VII : Modern Times, Ch. IX : The Final Consequences
Penguin Island (1908)
“Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And moderate vice”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.”
1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
Context: A thing, moderately good, is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 96.