Henry St John

“Royal Berkshire History: Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke”

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“Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)”

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”

“It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.”

“Our world seems to be, in many respects, the bedlam of every other system of intelligent creatures.”

“The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it.”

“They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.”

“Nations, like men, have their infancy.”

“I have read somewhere or other, — in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, — that history is philosophy teaching by examples.”

“We are born too late to see the beginning, and we die too soon to see the end of many things.”

“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.”