John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Lord John Russell

[A proverb is] the wit of one man, the wisdom of many.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter; and chivalry is the essence of virtue.

Fear is main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.